How do I use SentryDock with Cursor?
Cursor’s Agent chat can call SentryDock like any other MCP server. You add one remote address. After a reload, the chat can search news and touch your monitors while you stay in the editor.
This is useful when you are writing about a market and want “news in Peru” or your latest alerts without leaving Cursor. See what to ask.
To add SentryDock in Cursor:
- Create a key in Settings → Agents and copy it.
- In Cursor, open Settings, then MCP.
- Add a new MCP server named sentrydock. Use the JSON snippet below, with your key in place of YOUR_API_KEY.
- Alternatively, put that JSON in a project file named .cursor/mcp.json.
- Reload MCP (or restart Cursor) until SentryDock shows as connected.
- In Agent chat, ask “What’s on my SentryDock account?” then a news question.
{
"mcpServers": {
"sentrydock": {
"url": "https://www.sentrydock.com/mcp/YOUR_API_KEY"
}
}
}pnpm add -g sentrydock
export SENTRYDOCK_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY
sentrydock news search "news in Peru"If Cursor cannot reach it
- Confirm the URL uses your real key, not the words YOUR_API_KEY.
- Confirm the key was not revoked in Settings → Agents.
- New chats pick up new MCP servers; an old chat may still be using the previous tool list.
What to say first
- “What’s on my SentryDock account?” — plan, monitors, delivery, latest alerts.
- “News in Peru” or “copper strikes in Chile” — ranked headlines already in the index.
- “Show my latest alerts” — this account’s hits.
- “Run my cocoa monitor now” — same as Run now in the app, after you confirm.
- “Pause every monitor” — only after you confirm.